Editing Collodion (section)

==History==
In 1846, [[Louis-Nicolas Ménard]] and Florès Domonte discovered that [[cellulose nitrate]] could be dissolved in [[diethyl ether|ether]].<ref>Initially, the French referred to cellulose nitrate as ''xyloïdine'' and ''pyroxyline'':
*  Pelouze announced to the French Academy of Sciences that Ménard and Domonte had discovered that cellulose nitrate could be dissolved in ether in:  Pelouze (9 November 1846) [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2980r/f865.image.langEN "Observations sur la xyloïdine,"] ''Comptes rendus'' … , '''23''' : 861–862.
*  Ménard and Florès Domonte (1846) [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2980r/f1091.image.langEN "Sur la pyroxyline"] (On pyroxyline), ''Comptes rendus'' … , '''23''' : 1187–1188.</ref> They devised a mixture of ether as the solvent and [[ethanol]] as a diluent that rendered cellulose nitrate into a clear gelatinous liquid.  Collodion was first used medically as a dressing in 1847 by the [[Boston]] physician John Parker Maynard.<ref>John Parker Maynard (1848) [https://books.google.com/books?id=tNI9AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA178 "Discovery and application of the new liquid adhesive plaster,"] ''The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal'', '''38''' : 178–183.</ref><ref>This claim was contested by the Swiss chemist [[Christian Friedrich Schönbein]], one of several investigators who had independently discovered [[nitrocellulose]].  See:  C. F. Schoenbein (1849) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ORZAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA289 "On ether glue or liquor constringens; and its uses in surgery,"] ''The Lancet'', '''1''' :  289–290.</ref> The solution was dubbed "collodion" (from the Greek κολλώδης (''kollodis''), gluey) by [[Augustus Addison Gould]] of Boston, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Maynard |first=John P. |year=1867 |title=Collodion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVcsAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA36 |journal=The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal |volume=75 |pages=36–39}}</ref>